Source: Public Record Office: CP 40/555
Title: Common Pleas Michaelmas 1 Henry IV
Date: Michaelmas 1399
Place: Kent
Kanc'
Joh’es Ropere p attorn’ suu’ op se iiijto die vrsus Simone’ Plok de pl’ito quare vi & armis blada ip’ius Joh’is ad valenciam quadraginta solidor apud Sturmouth’ nup crescencia messuit & asportauit & alia enorm[ia] &c’ ad gaue dampnu’ &c’ Et conta pacem d’ni R’ nup Regis Angl’ s’cdi post conquestu’ &c’ Et ip’e non v[en’] &c’ Et prec’ fuit vic’ q’d attach’ eum &c’ Et vic’ modo mand’ q’d nichil h’et &c’ I’o capiatr Ita q’d sit hic [in] Octab’ s’ci Hillar’8 p Justic’ &c’
Kent
John Ropere appeared by his attorney for a fourth day against Simon Plok in a plea wherefore by force of arms he reaped and carried away the corn of the said John to the value of 40s lately growing at Sturmouth, and other enormities &c. to grave damage &c. and against the peace of lord Richard late king of England the second after the Conquest &c.; and (the defendant) has not come &c.; and it had been ordered the sheriff to attach him &c.; and the sheriff now reports that he has nothing (in his bailiwick in lands or chattels whereby he might be attached) &c.; therefore let him be taken, to be here on the octaves of Hilary by the justices &c.
8 20 January 1400